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Solitons in Laser Systems with Saturable Absorption
A review is presented of the main features of localized structures - dissipative solitons - in optical systems with nonlinear amplification and...
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Discrete Dissipative Solitons
The existence of discrete dissipative solitons in a nonlinear lattice is studied. The Ablowitz-Ladik (AL) model with linear dam**, nonlinear cubic...
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Ultrashort Pulse Lasers and Amplifiers Based on Nd:YVO4 and Yb:YAG Bulk Crystals
This Chapter focuses on the generation of ultrashort pulses and their amplification to high energies in Nd:YVO4 and Yb:YAG bulk crystals....
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Ophthalmic Applications
Femtosecond photodisruption opens new pathways in refractive surgery due to its precise interaction mechanism with biological tissue. The quality of...
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Monolithic Silicon Light Sources
Monolithic silicon light sources (LEDs and lasers) could have a significant impact when integrated on silicon chips. After a general introduction to...
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Monolithic Silicon Microphotonics
The technology evolution of optical interconnection is driven by the distance × product required for a given link. As such optical fiber deployment...
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Silicon Fundamentals for Photonics Applications
The many and diverse approaches to materials science problems have greatly enhanced our ability to engineer the physical properties of...
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Introduction
The state of a physical system is the mathematical description of our knowledge of it, and provides information on its future and past. A state...
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2 Quantum Tomographic Methods
The state of a physical system is the mathematical object that provides a complete information on the system. The knowledge of the state is...
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9 Quantum Operations on Qubitsand Their Characterization
Information encoded in quantum system has to obey rules of quantum physics which impose strict bounds on state estimation and on possible...
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Introduction to Femtosecond Technology
Femtosecond technology, with its ultrashort light pulses, is an innovative laser technology that can be used for multiple applications, e.g., in...
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Neurosurgical Applications
The high precision of femtosecond laser ablation makes it an interesting tool for neurosurgical applications. The resection of arbitrary-shaped...
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Ultrashort Pulse Thin-Disk Lasers and Amplifiers
This Chapter deals with the generation and the amplification of ultrashort pulses in mode-locked oscillators and multipass amplifiers based on the...
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Cutting of Diamond
For a number of years, diamond has been used as a material for cutting tools. Since conventional machining of diamond is difficult and expensive,...
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8 Characterization of Quantum Devices
Using quantum tomography and a single entangled state it is possible to characterize completely a quantum device, a channel, or a measuring...
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The Active Carrier Plasma: Ultrafast Microscopic Dynamics and Spatio-Spectral Gratings
In this chapter we will analyze the dynamic physical processes in the active charge carrier plasma of a semiconductor laser. Calculation and...
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Spatially Inhomogeneous Luminescence in Semiconductor Lasers
In this chapter we discuss the theoretical basis for describing spatially inhomogeneous spontaneous and amplified spontaneous emission (luminescence)...
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Polarization Fluctuations and Dynamics of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
The theoretical description of spatially extended VCSELs consequently has to consider two transverse dimensions and two polarizations. In this...
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High-Speed Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers
Spatio-temporal effects are generally important for both types of semiconductor lasers, i.e. edge- and vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)...